Yolo County Biographies
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W. H. ROBINSON
W. H. Robinson (colored), farmer and teamster at Woodland, is the son of Denis
and Mary A. (Winrow) Robinson, natives of Kentucky. His father was a slave up
to the time of his death in 1839, in Ralls County, Missouri; his mother died in
California, February 17, 1889, at the age of eighty-five years. She was freed
by Robert Briggs, of Ralls County, when W. H. was sixteen years of age. He was
born in that county, March 11, 1835, and was freed at the age of thirty by the
emancipation proclamation, up to which time he was owned by John C. Briggs. He
came to California in 1868, landing in San Francisco December 24, having made
his journey by sea and the Isthmus. He was a resident of Buckeye, Yolo County,
until 1873, when he went to Woodland, where he now has a nice little home on two
acres of land. He does all kinds of farm work for other parties, having all the
varieties of farming implements necessary, and he is well known as an
industrious and upright citizen. He is a member of the Christian Church, as is
also his family. He married, in Ralls County, Missouri, Sarah A. Shields, who
was born in Kentucky, and they have two children, -- Mary A. and Samuel H.
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing
Co., 1891
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler